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Sune Engel Rasmussen har tilbragt længere tid i Afghanistan siden 2001 end nogen anden dansk journalist. "Nyt blod" er baseret på reportager gennem tre år, hvor han boede permanent i landet, og handler om de afghanere, der er vokset op i en verden formet på godt og ondt af reaktionerne på terrorangrebene i USA den 11. september. Han tager læseren til frontlinjen, på motorcykel rundt i Kabul og langt ud i ørkenen. Vi møder Taleban-krigere, homoseksuelle, rigmandssønner og en ny generation af kvinder.

On 11th September 2006 - five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in the town of Garmsir, known as the Taliban gateway to Helmand Province. 40-year-old Capt. Doug Beattie of the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Regiment was charged with the mission to help retake Garmsir from the Taliban. His commanders said it would take two days; it actually took two weeks of exhausting, bloody conflict. For his repeated bravery Doug Beattie was decorated with the Military Cross.

In 2011, following the Taliban seige on Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel, an SAS soldier identified only as Serviceman J was awarded New Zealand's second highest military honor by showing outstanding gallantry in the face of danger. After twenty-two years in the New Zealand SAS, ex-commander Jamie Pennell is now ready to tell his story.

Elliot Ackerman left the American military ten years ago, but his time in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Marines and, later, as a CIA paramilitary officer marked him indelibly. When the Taliban began to close in on Kabul in August of 2021 and the Afghan regime began its death spiral, he found himself pulled back into the conflict. The Fifth Act is an astonishing human document that brings the weight of twenty years of war to bear on a single week at its bitter end.

In the dark of night, U.S. helicopters approached a high-walled compound in Pakistan on a mission to capture or kill one of the world's most notorious terrorist leaders. Less than 40 minutes later -- early Monday morning in Pakistan -- Osama bin Laden was dead, along with four others inside the complex, and the U.S. forces departed with the slain al Qaeda leader's body to fulfill a vow that originated shortly after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.

Mit der Operation Enduring Freedom begann am 7. Oktober 2001 der "Krieg gegen den Terror" in Afghanistan, der bis heute zum längsten Krieg der USA und ihrer Verbündeten geworden ist, mit Tausenden Toten und Verletzen, auch unter den deutschen Soldaten. Dieser neokoloniale "Kreuzzug" hat Wunden hinterlassen, die womöglich niemals heilen werden. Emran Feroz beschreibt zum 20. Jahrestag diesen Krieg nun erstmals aus afghanischer Perspektive. Er hat mit vielen Menschen vor Ort gesprochen: von Hamid Karzai über Taliban-Offizielle bis zu betroffenen Bürgern, die vor allem unter diesem Krieg gelitten haben.

Afghanistan, la biografia dei nuovi talebani, di Lorenzo Vidino; Afghanistan, sedotti dai mullah arrivano gli italiban di destra e di sinistra, di Francesco Merlo; Afghanistan, l'attivista barricata: "I talebani mentono; ci annienteranno", di Barbara Schiavulli; Afghanistan, vincitori e vinti. Il nuovo Grande Gioco per il cuore di Kabul, di Lucio Caracciolo; L'Afghanistan, Biden e il rischio del peggio, di Federico Rampini; Afghanistan, il diritto delle genti, di Michele Ainis.

Afghanistan, se rinasce il santuario della Jihad, di Maurizio Molinari; Afghanistan, quello scontro sul ritiro che spaccò la Nato: Italia e Gb contro gli Usa, di Antonello Guerrera e Claudio Tito; Afghanistan, così parlò l'America, Di Charles A. Kupchan; Afghanistan, a Kabul è scattata la caccia alle donne: "Non lasciateci sole o ci uccideranno", di Barbara Schiavulli; Afghanistan, allarme Onu sul nuovo emirato: "I talebani proteggono Al Qaeda", di Fabio Tonacci; Afghanistan, alla Casa Bianca un'anatra zoppa, di Paolo Garimberti.

Award-winning journalist Audrey Gillan was embedded with British troops during the invasion of Iraq in 2003. She was on the ground with the Household Cavalry's D Squadron when American pilots, firing at what they believed to be the enemy, injured four of its soldiers and killed one: 25-year-old Lance Corporal of Horse Matty Hull.

Die Geschichte Afghanistans scheint aus einer langen Zeit voller Kriege und Konflikte zu bestehen. Das Hörbuch erinnert an den ersten anglo-afghanischen Krieg und die sowjetische Besetzung, beschreibt die Situation unter den Taliban und beleuchtet kritisch den Einsatz der Bundeswehr am Hindukusch. "Die Afghanen sind ein tapferes, zähes und freiheitsliebendes Volk", so beschreibt Friedrich Engels 1857 das afghanische Volk.

Dog Soldiers tells the story of two brave young dog soldiers (army bomb dog handlers) killed in action in Afghanistan with their dogs by their sides, through the inspirational words of their mothers. Lance Corporal Kenneth Rowe and Lance Corporal Liam Tasker were both dog lovers from boyhood and went on to do the job they had always wanted to do.

Clint Emerson is the only SEAL ever inducted into the International Spy Museum. Operating from the shadows, with an instinct for running towards trouble, his unique skill set made him the perfect hybrid of elite and modern-day counterintelligence agent. Emerson spent his career on the bleeding edge of intelligence and operations, often specializing in solo missions that took advantage of subterfuge, improvisation, the best in recon and surveillance tech and even elements of Hollywood disguise to combat the changing global battlefield.

Kailash Limbu was in the front line of the fighting in Helmand Province. On dangerous resupply missions and on offensive patrols that took them to the heart of the 'killing zone', he and his men came under frequent attack from Taliban fighters. He talks of other operations in which he has served - and, perhaps most movingly, of the other Gurkha soldiers - the united band of brothers - with whom he serves and on whom he relies every day.

Saad Mohseni, chairman and CEO of Moby Group, Afghanistan’s largest media company, charts a twenty-year effort to bring a free press to his country after years of Taliban rule, and how that effort persists even after the Taliban’s return to power in 2021.

È il 2016 e a Kabul la speranza ha lasciato il posto alla paura e per molti la fuga dal Paese è l'unica via. Anche Omar, un giovane che si guadagna da vivere come interprete per le forze statunitensi, decide di affidarsi ai "facilitatori" che promettono di farlo arrivare in Italia. Fingendosi un migrante, Aikins segue Omar sulla famigerata rotta che porta al Mediterraneo attraverso i passi montani dell'Asia centrale.

Nur wenige Monate nachdem in Afghanistan eine über 25-jährige Kriegsgeschichte zu Ende ging, begleitet Roger Willemsen 2006 eine afghanische Freundin auf ihrem Weg in die Heimat: von Kabul nach Kunduz und durch die Steppe zum legendenumwobenen Oxus, dem Grenzfluss zu Tadschikistan – die abenteuerliche Reise durch ein erwachendes Land. Am Ende ist Roger Willemsens Buch weit mehr als der persönliche Bericht von einer faszinierenden Reise, sondern eine literarische Betrachtung der Grundlagen allen Reisens.

L’auteur raconte son histoire personnelle en tant que fantassin québécois ayant vécu trois missions de combat consécutives dans les zones les plus dangereuses de l’Afghanistan entre 2007 et 2011. Il se livre corps et âme avec intensité dans ce récit où l’attrait de l’aventure guerrière l’amène à développer une dépendance à l’adrénaline. Le tout débute avec les attentats du 11 septembre 2001 pour se terminer 10 ans plus tard après avoir été plongé dans les abysses de l’horreur à travers son parcours.